Word: gays
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...that you I'm reading about?" asks Nguyen Van Dung's aunt, phoning from the U.S. Her nephew and I had just sat down in a Hanoi café to talk about Bong, a book about his life as a gay man in Vietnam, when she called his cell phone...
...Bong isn't great literature, says Khuat Thu Hong of Hanoi's Institute for Social Development Studies. But it is a breakthrough because it is the first intimate revelation of gay life in Vietnamese. "Its publication is a sign that society is becoming more tolerant," he says...
...Despite these changes, what remains true about the experience of being gay in this country was just as true almost 40 years ago when our visible, political movement started with the Stonewall Riots at a little bar in Greenwich Village, as it is today. Being LGBT is socially sanctioned not simply because of who we choose to love, but because of the fact that in that act, we are flouting what certain heternomative values that tell us we must be as men and as women. I propose that the true and most noble goal of the movement for LGBT equality...
...things stand today, each of us decides each day to what extent we will adhere to these rules. But no matter how well we fit in appearance-wise, the reality is, those of us who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and transgender are already gender non-conforming. In our quest for normalcy and acceptance, we’ve lost sight of the goal which will make the world an infinitely better, safer place for all people, everywhere—total freedom to be, and express, gender however we see fit, without fear for our safety, our sanity, or our livelihoods...
...midst of continuing our push for legal marriage and the ability to join the military without being hidden, a commitment to gender liberation is the goal that asks more of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. It asks more than many of us are currently doing to support the full participation of transgender people in the movement. It asks more than we are currently doing to consider their rights and freedoms as important as the desire to be able to partner with people of the same gender. It asks—it demands—more than the organizations that lead...